Portal

See Gateway page. Can also mean Portal Site.

Web site offering common consumer services such as news, email, other content, and search.

A site that functions as a point of access to information on the web. Portals are either authoritative hubs for a given subject or popular content driven sites.

A Web page that serves as a point of entry for surfers of the World Wide Web. Note: Most of the popular portals are designed to optimize their compatibility with one or more Web search engines. Many portals also offer value-added services such as e-mail accounts, Web page hosting, or filtered information flow, with the costs of these services being underwritten by advertising. Loosely synonymous with Web-page search engine.